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The Four Different Attachment Types in Relationships.
The four different attachment types and what this means for relationships. Attachment theory says that for their social and emotional development, children need to form a relationship with at least one primary caregiver. This attachment normally develops through four...
Why Positive Education Matters
Positive education interventions are very slowly making their way into some mainstream schools and colleges. However, there are very few that offer a whole-school approach. Notable ones are Wellington College, an independent school in England and Geelong Grammar in...
Pride and Prejudice Review – Positive Psychology Book Club
Welcome to the new series of Positive Psychology Book Club! Each month I will review a fairly recent work of modern contemporary fiction through a positive psychology lens - announcing the book we are reading and giving you a month to read it in advance. However, as...
How Positive Psychology Can Help us to Cope in Difficult Times
When life deals you Lemons… Positive Psychology has sometimes been described as what takes us from OK to great – but what happens when something knocks us sideways and we are finding it hard to cope? There are times when things just aren’t going right for us and no...
How to Have a New Experience Without Leaving Your Chair!
Really we don’t need to always be out and about having a new experience; we can create our own simply by expanding our imagination and our access to new words. In this post, I aim to show you how that can be done. As I continue my research into what it means to be or...
The Importance of Boundary Setting for Optimising Positive Emotions
‘The only people who get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who were benefitting from you having none' I have seen the above quote a few times on Facebook. I usually write in line with empirical research regarding Positive Psychology, but within...
The Light Life Honors the Shadow
In our work, we must not forget to honor the shadows. Life is not always full of light and love, nor is it full of shadows or darkness. The balance sways in one direction or another over the course of our lifetime. On any given day, we could be weathering a storm...
Fierce Self-Compassion
My favourite Positive Psychology book of the year (so far) is “Fierce Self-Compassion” by Dr Kristin Neff. Self-Compassion is one of my key areas of interest and in this blog, I hope to outline the new insights into this concept described in the book and how they...
Living Your True Nature and Purpose
Do you feel lost? Confused? Dissatisfied with life? Why are you here? Who are you? How are you meant to live? What are you meant to do? Why don’t you feel happy with your life? Well, I can’t guarantee that I have THE answers to these complex, existential questions....
